Weekend Summary - Quadbox Shaman 5v5 Experience (50-15)
One of the greatest joys in Quadboxing is that I only need a healer to 5v5. Prior to last night I had rolled all my healers into one team. Unfortunately balancing the amount of games played and rating proved impossible. My solution was to have each healer create their own team. Of course my rating resets everytime I decide to play with someone else but atm Im after the learning experience for both myself and the healer.
Surprisingly many of my healers are at all different skill levels. The worst healers have me constantly paying attention to my health bars and throwing lesser heals on myself and them. The best healers allow me to focus on DMG and only need me to heal under opposition Cool Down blowing Zergfests. What I found fascinating is that playing with the lower skilled healers allowed me to learn what mistakes were being made and how to counter them. I learned little tricks like keeping the Healer in front of me, so when he's taking dmg I can burst down his attackers effortlessly. And when the healer gets locked up behind me, the "turn clones seperately" move that Ellay showed in the video is taking my game to the next level. This simple strategdy is melting opponents that have given me trouble in the past. The scene in the tutorial on the Blades Edge Bridge is nothingless than mad skillz, I inspire to look as flawless when I pull it off. And mind you Im working on that move because it seems to be the only way to get a fight started in that place...letting the idiots charge you when your backs are to them! And then just MELT EM DOWN!
My new found success came from finding a healer at the same gear and skill level as myself (yeah I actually think Im good at this stuff :D). Im proud to say that the only teams that give me any trouble atm are top 100 teams. That being said many of them are BG1 transplants that have had previous practice (thanks Ellay!!!!). The arena is all about timing, and to be successful in 5v5 arena both the healer and myself have to be MONEY!
So we stopped last night at 1709 and after losing 3 matches to the same team. 30 minute fights...both the healer and I made silly mistakes (it happens at 1 am in the morning, hehe). I feel good about the weekend session because for the first time I didnt run across a team that I thought was unbeatable. And here's some advice to you up and comers, once you realize the power and grow confident in what your doing, a quadbox shammie group is UNSTOPPABLE! We played one match last night and the team just came in and destroyed us. We requeued and it was the same team again, ready for the zerg this time I took down their healer and a dps but went OOM...it was a turning point because I new that this well organized team in full S3/S4 and "Gladiator" titles by their names was beatable. But here's were the real confidence boost came from, we queue up again and its a scrub team and in the middle of the battle I get a whisper from Elektronic, typical level 1 Tauren Warrior. He asks how long I'll be playing and if what Im doing is even legal. I tell him I'll be playing all night and its legit. I then ask "You wouldn't" happen to be from that Glad team I almost beat? Thats right people at number 88 with my 4th shammie still in reputation PvP gear, the queue dodging has begun. Turns out that team is the rated #1 in the battlegroup atm.
Sorry for the long post, and thanks for providing such a cool community. With all the haters, and QQ's its nice to come to a place and share my experiences without the typical "WTF" "HAX" response.
Fourth Shammy still in Rep Gear
I want to make it clear that three of my Shaman are completely geared. The 4th shaman, that I leveled after I realized that 3v3 just wasnt going to work as well as Quadbox + healer in 5v5.
That fourth Shaman is still in the Rep PvP gear (merciless shoulders and I dont show the helm so he doesnt stand out) and we stopped at 1795 last night. We plan on playing some more today...we'll see how we do.
Theres another post about Ellay saying Resto Shaman aren't his style, and its not mine either. I had an incident this weekend were we had the top 13 team in my bg group requeue after they barely beat us. My healer missed the rez interrupt after watching Proximo...Proximo only shows casts on your focus and target and he didnt have the rezzer targetted, DOH! But bottom line, I blew up a full Gladiator Team and Instant Nuked their Merciless Gladiator Pally. Nothing beats nuking the best in game combined with not letting a Pally get their bubble off. Its just funny - and thats my style.
